Of course there isn’t much to cheer about as you know tens of thousands of migrants are streaming across our southern border, most claiming they are refugees seeking asylum.Refugee admission numbers pale in comparison to the numbers coming across our border and claiming refugee status.

The flow that has definitely slowed is the US Refugee Admissions Programrefugees that are selected initially by the United Nations, followed by US State Department approval and resettlement by one of nine federal resettlement contractors who distribute them to most states. (One of many posts on the contractors at RRW is here.)The work of the contractors is almost completely funded by you.
Office closures reported this week are the result of the federal slowdown in admissions (slowdown in money to the contractors) and because these resettlement offices could not find enough local financial support to keep their doors open, a fact that demonstrates one vital point:

There is not enough support by the public generally for refugee resettlement!

Before I get to the two office closures I heard about this week, one in Ohio, the other in Virginia, here is a bit of information about where we are at the 6-month-mark for FY19.
(Fiscal year 2019 runs from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019.)

Remember that the President set the cap (or ceiling) for this fiscal year at 30,000.

On Monday we will be at the 6-month-mark and as of today we admitted 12,151 refugees to your towns and cities.UNHCR asked the Obama Administration to take 50,000 DR Congolese and the Trump Administration honored the commitment. We are at about 50,000 now!
About a quarter of those are from the African country the DR Congo, followed by Burma and then the Ukraine as the top three sending countries.
Over a third of those from Burma are Rohingya Muslims.
Not included in the 12,151 number is over 3,000 Afghans who received Special Immigrant Visasfor supposedly helping us in Afghanistan. (The total number of Afghans admitted under this special refugee category is over 65,000 now!)The top five ‘welcoming’ states are:

Texas, New York, Washington, California, and North Carolina

(Turning Texas blue seems to be going on according to plan!)The next five states are:

Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania

Now to the closed offices….

Virginia

After Decades Resettling Refugees, Church World Service Richmond Office Is Closing

I’m going to encourage you to read this story yourself. The takeaways for me are that there are still two other contractors working (bidding for bodies!) in Richmond.
And, this comment below is something for all of you to consider.
If the program is not reformed during this President’s tenure in the White House, know that the contractors are looking ahead to a time when the program goes back to high numbers in a future administration.

There are still two other resettlement agencies in Richmond: Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the International Rescue Committee. Baumann [Virginia program director] says these offices will likely see an influx in new arrival cases, even with the low admittance numbers. His primary concern though is the impact of the office closure on Richmond’s future ability to resettle refugees if national policies change with a new administration.“When an office closes, you can’t just in two years decide to reopen,” said Baumann. [Believe me, they will be open in a heartbeat!—ed]

Ohio

This article demonstrates once again that there is just not enough local financial support for refugees. Americans are not willing to support the program with their wallets, thus….

The Refugee Admissions Program cannot survive without millions of your tax dollars propping it up!

Akron to lose one of its two refugee resettlement agencies after federal cutback in admissions

Here are a few snips from the story at the Akron Beacon Journal that interested me and make my point,

World Relief, based in Baltimore, is one of the primary agencies in the United States that resettle those who have fled persecution in their homelands.It receives grant money from the U.S. State Department per refugeeand raises money from church congregations. [Not much money!—ed]Kara Ulmer, Director World Relief Akron
[….][Kara] Ulmer said the closing of the agency is a blow to the network of area churches and individual volunteers who have worked with World Relief to help settle refugees.
“It’s a significant loss for a community,” Ulmer said, one of three still employed in the Akron office. “We’ve worked with 50 churches as partners. We have more than 500 volunteers work with us and the refugees in a highly relational way,” helping them learn English, find work, set up doctors’ appointments, celebrate birthdays and holidays and more.
[….]
Kara Ulmer, director of the Akron World Relief office, said the agency was slated to resettle only 46 refugees this fiscal year. Staff already had been cut back, and World Relief’s national administrators determined they cannot afford to keep an office open that handles such a relatively small number of refugee arrivals.

“We have been working so hard to build a private, local funding base,” Ulmer said, but there was not enough time to generate the necessary funds.

Maybe this Christian ‘charity’ and its Christian volunteers could find some poor Americans in Akron in need of help!More here.

As I have said on many previous occasions, you can love this President and still tell him what he needs to improve. Tell him he must legally reform the US Refugee Admissions Program during his tenure or nothing will change in years to come. But more pressing at the moment is the southern border invasion. He keeps talking about closing the border, but all we see is more dreadful news about thousands coming across every week (or is it every day!).

2 offices is not nearly enough closing. I live in NC and it is in the top 5 welcoming states. Notice gang wars happening in Germany between Afghans and Africans in news. Germany used to be the safest place. Now gang wars between migrants. That will happen here if enough live in same area and they fight over turf and religion. Trump has done alot with his hands tied by congress. Call your US REPS.

Do all your readers want to stop taking refugees completely? The border is is a crisis while the refugee program has had many positive results except for Somali r resettlement. There is no way to really asses economic contributions since refugees stay here over the long term and buy houses, raise many professional children and pay taxes. There is so much confusion about the differences between immigrants and refugees Even the cases you present here are mostly immigrants including Indian and Chinese etc. The responsobility need to be shared worldwide especially other Arab countries but we all know why they do not want refugees.
As to SPLC, I have been a member for many years and I wonder if you believe they have done some good work exposing extremism. But given the recent troubles I am resigning my membership. I never by the way consider you a hate group but there has been an Anti Muslim focus for awhile so it is borderline to me. No one takes in the total perspective especially on a personal level as to the positive impact refugees do have including 99% of Muslims. Everyone on both sides have a slanted agenda.
i personally hate the liberal/conservative and left/right labels. I believe Americans are in the middle unless they single issue abortion and gay rights as critical. I am a progressive humanistic independent if i must have a label.

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Rich
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 7:59 AM Frauds, Crooks and Criminals wrote:
> Ann Corcoran posted: “Of course there isn’t much to cheer about as you > know tens of thousands of migrants are streaming across our southern > border, most claiming they are refugees seeking asylum. The flow that has > definitely slowed is the US Refugee Admissions Progr” >

Ann,
Thank you for your good works and shedding light on the shameful organizations that profit behind the backs of the American people with tax-payer dollars.
I wish to bring to your attention a similar type of scam being perpetrated by so-called “animal rescue” organizations.
The “flip-that-rescue” scam is importing dogs with highly contagious illnesses such as Asian influenza, Asian distemper and Asian brucellosis.
There are a number of so-called “animal shelters” that are perpetrating this scam while endangering the pets of millions of Americans.
All this importing of people and animals needs to be stopped!